Xuedong Huang

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Xuedong Huang
Xuedong Huang 2020 Wired Magazine Profile Picture.jpg
in 2017
Born (1962-10-20) October 20, 1962 (age 58)
China
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma materEdinburgh University, Tsinghua University, Hunan University
AwardsACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow, Wired Magazine 25 Geniuses, Asian American Engineer of the Year, IEEE Paper Award, Allen Newell Research Excellence Medal
Scientific career
FieldsSpeech Recognition, Machine translation, Natural Language Processing, AI, Software Development
InstitutionsMicrosoft, Carnegie Mellon University

Xuedong D. Huang (born October 20, 1962) is a Chinese American computer scientist and technology executive who has made contributions to spoken language processing and AI Cognitive Services. He is Microsoft's Technical Fellow and Chief Technology Officer of Azure AI. Huang is a strong advocate of AI for Good,[1] AI for Accessibility,[2] and AI for Cultural Heritage.[3]

Education[]

Huang received his PhD in EE from the University of Edinburgh in 1989 (sponsored by the British ORS and Edinburgh University Scholarship), his MS in CS from Tsinghua University in 1984, and BS in CS from Hunan University in 1982.

Career[]

After receiving his PhD in 1989, Huang joined Carnegie Mellon University and worked with Raj Reddy and Kai-Fu Lee on speech recognition. At CMU, he directed Sphinx-II speech system research and achieved the best performance in every category of DARPA's 1992 benchmarking. Microsoft Research recruited him to found and lead Microsoft's spoken language initiatives in 1993. His co-authored book Spoken Language Processing[4] and his Historical speech recognition review[5] succinctly summarized several generations of spoken language research. As Microsoft's Mr. Speech for nearly three decades, Huang has been instrumental in creating Microsoft's Speech Application Programming Interface (SAPI), shipping Microsoft Speech Server, and modernizing spoken language and integrative AI services [6][7] via Azure AI Cognitive Services,[8] which not only enabled millions 3rd party customers but also powered up Microsoft's own AI scenarios from Windows, Office, to Teams.[9]

Huang helped Microsoft and Azure AI achieving multiple industry's first human parity milestones on the open research tasks: transcribing conversational speech,[10] machine translation,[11] conversational QnA,[12] and computer vision image captioning.[13]

Huang has made contributions to the software and AI industry not only by his executive leadership but also through his scientific publications and inventing more than 170 US patents that impacted billions customers globally through Azure AI enabled products and services. In 2016, Wired magazine named him one of 25 Geniuses.[14] In 2021, Azure AI was named the winner of InfoWorld's Technology of the Year Award.[15]

Huang was awarded the Allen Newell research excellence medal in 1992, and IEEE Speech Processing Best Paper in 1993. He was recognized as IEEE Fellow by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2000, and named ACM Fellow by Association for Computing Machinery in 2017.[16]

Customer story of Azure AI[]

  • Aberdeen City Council in Scotland answers calls for customer service [17]
  • Airbus accelerated innovation [18]
  • Automation Anywhere uses Azure AI to support UK healthcare provider’s COVID-19 response [19]
  • BBC reads its articles and enables "Beeb" assistant [20][21]
  • CDC launches coronavirus bot to help take strain off healthcare system [22]
  • Dentsu Aegis Network uses Azure AI to support global clients like General Motors, P&G and Kraft Heinz [23]
  • EU brings the parliament closer to citizens with Azure live speech translation [24]
  • GE rapidly converts customers’ paper-based records into digital formats [25]
  • KPMG helps financial institutions save millions in compliance costs [26]
  • Looney Tunes and BBC all speak with Azure voice[27]
  • Motorola Solutions helps first responders using just their voice [28]
  • NHS leads innovation with Azure AI [29]
  • NYC is fulfilling consistent societal needs [30]
  • Progressive insurance shoppers gain new service channel [31]
  • RXR Realty reopens for business to fight Covid-19 [32]
  • Swisscom uses Azure to drive innovation, market leadership with multilingual voice assistant [33]
  • TIBCO takes anomaly detection to the edge [34]
  • Uber boosts platform security with facial recognition [35]
  • University of Nottingham empowers remote research and learning [36]
  • Vodafone transformed its customer care strategy [37]
  • Volkswagen engages global customers with real-time translation [38]
  • Walgreens customer service now on Microsoft Azure AI [39]

References[]

  1. ^ "Using AI for Good with Microsoft AI". Microsoft. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  2. ^ "Azure AI for Accessibility". www.linkedin.com. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  3. ^ "Xuedong Huang on LinkedIn: Microsoft Introduces Inuktitut to Microsoft Translator - Microsoft". www.linkedin.com. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  4. ^ Spoken Language Processing, Prentice Hall 2001 Xuedong Huang, Alex Acero, and Hsiao-Wuen Hon
  5. ^ A Historical Perspective of Speech Recognition Xuedong Huang, James Baker, Raj Reddy. Communications of the ACM, January 2014, Vol. 57 No. 1, Pages 94-103.
  6. ^ Stanford's Speech Transcription Bias Study in 2020
  7. ^ XYZ-Code: A holistic representation toward integrative AI, Microsoft AI blog
  8. ^ Azure AI Cognitive Services
  9. ^ Microsoft 365 build on Azure AI
  10. ^ Historic Achievement: Microsoft researchers reach human parity in conversational speech recognition October 18, 2016 | Allison Linn
  11. ^ Microsoft reaches a historic milestone, using AI to match human performance in translating news from Chinese to English March 14, 2018 | Allison Linn
  12. ^ Machine Reading Systems Are Becoming More Conversational May 2019
  13. ^ What’s that? Microsoft’s latest breakthrough, now in Azure AI, describes images as well as people do Oct 14, 2020 | John Roach
  14. ^ 25 Geniuses Who Are Creating the Future of Business 04.26.2016
  15. ^ Yegulalp, James R. Borck, Martin Heller, Steven Nuñez, Andrew C. Oliver, Ian Pointer, Isaac Sacolick and Serdar (2021-02-03). "InfoWorld's 2021 Technology of the Year Award winners". InfoWorld. Retrieved 2021-02-08.
  16. ^ People of ACM - Xuedong Huang July 25, 2017
  17. ^ "Chatbot answers the call for efficient customer service in Aberdeen". Microsoft Customers Stories. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  18. ^ "Airbus accelerates innovation with Azure Cognitive Services". Microsoft Customers Stories. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  19. ^ "Automation Anywhere uses Azure AI platform to support UK healthcare provider's COVID-19 response". Microsoft Customers Stories. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  20. ^ "BBC innovates how it delivers trusted news and entertainment with Azure AI". Microsoft Customers Stories. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  21. ^ "Xuedong Huang on LinkedIn: BBC Launches Artificial Intelligence Tool To Read Its Articles To". www.linkedin.com. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  22. ^ "How international health care organizations are using bots to help fight COVID-19 |". Transform. 2020-04-08. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  23. ^ "Simplifying complexity for the benefit of clients". Microsoft Customers Stories. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  24. ^ "Bringing the European Parliament closer to citizens through AI". EU Policy Blog. 2020-09-15. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  25. ^ "GE Aviation's Digital Group builds a holistic source of truth with Azure Digital Twins". Microsoft Customers Stories. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  26. ^ "KPMG helps financial institutions save millions in compliance costs with Azure Cognitive Services". Microsoft Customers Stories. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  27. ^ "Xuedong Huang on LinkedIn: Are you talking to me? Azure AI brings iconic characters to life with". www.linkedin.com. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  28. ^ "Motorola Solutions helps first responders in the field access vital data using just their voice". Microsoft Customers Stories. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  29. ^ "Leading innovation in the UK's NHS". Microsoft Customers Stories. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  30. ^ "Fulfilling consistent societal needs with cloud technology at NYC DYCD". Microsoft Customers Stories. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  31. ^ "Insurance shoppers gain new service channel with artificial intelligence chatbot". Microsoft Customers Stories. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  32. ^ "RXR Realty reopens for business using Azure IoT and the intelligent edge to empower tenant safety". Microsoft Customers Stories. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  33. ^ "Swisscom uses Azure to drive innovation, market leadership with multilingual voice assistant". Microsoft Customers Stories. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  34. ^ "TIBCO takes anomaly detection to the edge with containers in Azure Cognitive Services". Microsoft Customers Stories. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  35. ^ "Uber boosts platform security with the Face API, part of Microsoft Cognitive Services". Microsoft Customers Stories. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  36. ^ "University of Nottingham empowers remote research and learning with Azure and Teams". Microsoft Customers Stories. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  37. ^ "Vodafone transforms its customer care strategy with digital assistant built on Azure Cognitive Services". Microsoft Customers Stories. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  38. ^ "Machine translation speaks Volkswagen – in 40 languages". Microsoft Customers Stories. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  39. ^ "Walgreens Boots Alliance boosts customer service with chatbots built on Microsoft Azure". Microsoft Customers Stories. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
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